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PostPosted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 2:50 pm 
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It isn't a court case but is rather interesting and didn't know where to post the link on TDO;

Effectiveness of Taxicab Security Equipment in Reducing Driver Homicide Rates

http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(13)00212-2/fulltext

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 7:23 pm 
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captain cab wrote:
It isn't a court case but is rather interesting and didn't know where to post the link on TDO;

Effectiveness of Taxicab Security Equipment in Reducing Driver Homicide Rates

http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(13)00212-2/fulltext

All anyone who thinks CCTV is an expensive waste of time, or is merely a nosey bugger in your cab (i.e. the GMB), could they please read the conclusion below a 1000 or more times?

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Municipal ordinances and company policies mandating security cameras appear to be highly effective in reducing taxicab driver deaths due to workplace violence.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 1:27 am 
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CCTV won't help reduce something that doesn't exist in my area.


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 8:39 pm 
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roythebus wrote:
CCTV won't help reduce something that doesn't exist in my area.

What you never have RTAs?

Very impressed.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 9:32 pm 
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roythebus wrote:
CCTV won't help reduce something that doesn't exist in my area.

Could stop it before it starts, but you would never know for certain of course. :roll:

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 11:53 pm 
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With the amount of crimes shown on CCTV it obviously doesn't deter anyone from committing a crime. It may help identify and catch them later.


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 12:15 am 
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roythebus wrote:
With the amount of crimes shown on CCTV it obviously doesn't deter anyone from committing a crime. It may help identify and catch them later.

But if it is not a deterrent (and it is for some at least), as a minimum it hopefully gets them off the streets for a while.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:44 pm 
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roythebus wrote:
With the amount of crimes shown on CCTV it obviously doesn't deter anyone from committing a crime. It may help identify and catch them later.

I beg to differ on that.

When I drove my hackney with CCTV more than once people got in the cab, saw the CCTV and got out. Including a group of ethnic folk who wanted to go miles.

But even if it only helps catch the scum, that will do for me.

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Taxicab driver homicide rates were compared in 26 major cities in the U.S. licensing taxicabs with security cameras (n=8); bullet-resistant partitions (n=7); and cities where taxicabs were not equipped with either security cameras or partitions (n=11). News clippings of taxicab driver homicides and the number of licensed taxicabs by city were used to construct taxicab driver homicide rates spanning 15 years (1996–2010). Generalized estimating equations were constructed to model the Poisson-distributed homicide rates on city-specific safety equipment installation status, controlling for city homicide rate and the concurrent decline of homicide rates over time.

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